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Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe…

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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of…
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving…
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their…
The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…
No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,…
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.…
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…
Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World…
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with…
A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…

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Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However,… — Bob Beauprez
You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and… — Joe Biden
I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors. — John Bolton
Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and… — Emanuel Swedenborg
God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects. — Mignon McLaughlin
I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
General Motors spends more on health care than steel — Kathleen Sebelius
These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much… — Ahmed Ben Bella
The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get… — Alfred P. Sloan
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake,… — Ross Perot
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with… — Charles Kettering
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. — Arthur Hailey

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